The Archers

Just listening to it now. Something must be up. It was mentioned on Today this morning.

I have been a fairly regular Archers listener for more than thirty years ...

Best wishes from George

Has the dog accidentally been shot again ?

It's been a nightmare listening to it it these last few weeks. Sunday's denouement was slightly melodramatic and there will be a different kind of pain going forward I'm sure. 

No telling yet!

It is as exciting as the end of Aunt Laura! Decades ago of course.

I must say that I under-estimated the time I have been listening to the Archers, more like forty plus years from the early 1970s, but at my age what is a lost decade?

Best wishes from George

TOBYJUG posted:

Has the dog accidentally been shot again ?

I can only say "sort of"...

I listen to BBC radio 4 for a while everyday, wakes me up in the morning with something interesting, and a little later at 10 the Women's Hour can be particularly quite informative : )

However, it's a shame they bother with pathetic and antiquated programs like the boring old Archers that spout nothing but ham-acted out voices babbling a load of old codswallop amongst the over obvious silly background farm yard sound effects. 

I seriously wish beeb4 would junk that rubbish and keep on with interesting and informative broadcasts that have some representation of the real world.

Debs

Hungryhalibut posted:

It's been a nightmare listening to it it these last few weeks. Sunday's denouement was slightly melodramatic and there will be a different kind of pain going forward I'm sure. 

Agreed. All that over a Tuna Bake too 

I liked that they had Lyin' Eyes playing in the background 

@naim_nymph "nothing but ham-acted out voices babbling a load of old codswallop amongst the over obvious silly background farm yard sound effects"

When I first read this I thought you were talking about Today In Parliament.

Noogle posted:

@naim_nymph "nothing but ham-acted out voices babbling a load of old codswallop amongst the over obvious silly background farm yard sound effects"

When I first read this I thought you were talking about Today In Parliament.

 

That would have been 'Thought for the day'. A more pointless waste of time on the programme would be very hard to find.

We usually do not bother with the Sunday episodes as they are usually too...sundayish; nothing generally happens other than a pie getting burnt, Jill getting to sound more like a foghorn etc. But that episode was more interesting than Nigel falling off the roof all those years ago.

I thought it was pretty well done. The slow-burn mental abuse ditched out by Rob was handled well. Interestingly, I think this kind of drama/storyline works better on radio than on TV.

We stopped listening shortly after the guy from Eastenders took over and it became Radio 4's version of Emmerdale.  Perhaps now he has been fired we can get back to the mind numbing normality that we all used to enjoy; and hopefully Rob will have a terminal relapse and Helen will get a life sentence